In 2018, Danny Elfman agreed to pay a $830,000 settlement to a girl who accused him of sexual harassment, in line with a brand new Rolling Stone report. The information got here to mild as a result of the girl is suing Elfman for allegedly failing to make funds within the settlement.

In response to court docket paperwork obtained by Rolling Stone, Elfman and Nomi Abadi, a 35-year-old musician and composer, “agreed to resolve an underlying dispute which included phrases that [Elfman] would make funds in 4 totally different classes in numerous installments over the course of 5 years totaling $830,000.” Elfman allegedly didn’t make two funds of $42,500 in 2019 and 2021, and in paperwork filed in Los Angeles this week, Abadi is suing for breach of contract.

In a November 2017 police report, Abadi accused Elfman — a childhood idol of the musician, who she cast knowledgeable relationship with after assembly in 2015 — of indecent publicity and masturbating in entrance of her with out her consent. Quoting associates of Abadi’s accustomed to the scenario, the report describes a mentor-mentee relationship that rapidly devolved into sexual harassment. Elfman would allegedly reply the door at his recording studio carrying a gown and nothing else, took nude images of Abadi, and despatched her inappropriate images along with masturbating in entrance of her on a number of events; all of those experiences he defined on the time as a part of his artistic course of, and never inherently sexual. Abadi allegedly mentioned the composer’s habits with one in every of his assistants, who stated he had “labido [sic] pursuits… which i keep out of.”

Abadi, who’s a member of the Recording Academy, based the nonprofit Feminine Composer Security League in 2020, which was meant to “break stigmas within the business surrounding trauma and disgrace.” Earlier this 12 months, she stated at a Grammys press convention that she couldn’t carry herself to vote within the awards after seeing the nominees, which she stated included abusers. Although she didn’t title anybody particularly, Elfman was nominated for a Grammy this 12 months.

Elfman denied Abadi’s allegations in statements to Rolling Stone, claiming that Abadi retaliated after he rejected her romantic advances and settled to keep away from harming his profession. “How do I reply to accusations so severe that being harmless is just not a legitimate protection? It’s excruciating to think about {that a} 50-year profession could also be destroyed in a single information cycle because of vicious and wholly false allegations about sexual misconduct,” Elfman stated. “Ms. Abadi’s allegations are merely not true. I allowed somebody to get near me with out figuring out that I used to be her ‘childhood crush’ and that her intention was to interrupt up my marriage and change my spouse. When this individual realized that I wished distance from her, she made it clear that I might pay for having rejected her. I allowed an ill-advised friendship to have far-reaching penalties, and that error in judgment is completely my fault. I’ve carried out nothing indecent or incorrect, and my attorneys stand able to show with voluminous proof that these accusations are false. That is the final I’ll say on this topic.”

“When confronted with threats from the opposite social gathering to go public with untruths on the top of the #MeToo motion, [Elfman] confronted the inconceivable selection between settling and persevering with his profession and incomes a residing for his household or deciding to battle what on the time was an unwinnable battle to inform the reality — Danny selected his household,” a consultant for Elfman stated in a separate assertion. “It’s disappointing, however sadly not shocking, that this baseless narrative can be revived now that the funds have stopped. Accusations alone shouldn’t and don’t equate to guilt, and Danny will defend himself and clear his title with the amount of proof and the opposite social gathering’s personal phrases — her phrases converse for themselves.”

Learn Rolling Stone’s full report right here.